DOGE pushes Social Security Administration to cut off phone service: Report SSA officials are weighing eliminating telephone support for claims processing and direct-deposit account transactions.

This is outrageous.

Social Security is a lifeline for more than 160,000 people in PA-04.

We should be making it easier for Americans to access the benefits they earned — not taking away services from seniors, people with disabilities, and families.

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Social Security, facing pressure from DOGE, weighs big cuts to phone service Agency considers ending phone program that helps with claims processing and is used by millions of elderly and disabled Americans.

Turning off the phones at the Social Security Administration would put millions at risk of being unable to get help accessing their earned benefits.
 
DOGE thinks seniors and disabled people don't deserve to speak with a real person if they miss a check.

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Since World War II, America has been far and away the world’s most dominant power.

In just 7 weeks of Trump, we’ve seen him do things that directly undermine that and give away American dominance to authoritarian nations.

🚨Tonight, I voted against a Republican bill that slashed veterans' health care and took food from families and seniors.

I'll never vote for a bill that enables Trump to dismantle our government while enriching himself and his friends at the expense of hardworking Americans.

🚨 80% of Americans—including Trump supporters—oppose cutting Medicaid. But Trump and House Republicans are pushing $880 billion dollars in cuts to force working families to pay for tax breaks for the rich. This is a direct attack on health care

The stakes are just too high.

Netanyahu’s extremist government has halted ALL humanitarian aid into Gaza.

Starving children is a war crime.

UN leaders said: "International humanitarian law is clear: we must be allowed access to deliver vital lifesaving aid. We need to get aid in and the hostages out.”

The Trump administration just halted all military aid to Ukraine. This is no surprise from a President who has moved beyond appeasement and into aiding and abetting Putin.

To my Republican colleagues who have claimed to support Ukraine: the time has come to choose between democracy and autocracy.

Trump administration pauses U.S. military aid to Ukraine The U.S. has been a key supplier of weapons for Ukraine as it continues to fend off the invasion launched by Russia three years ago.

First, Donald Trump blamed Zelenskyy for Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.

Then, he says he “trusts” Putin.

Now, he’s frozen bipartisan military aid.

It’s clear that Donald Trump is putting his fragile ego before our national security — siding with Putin over U.S. allies in Europe.

Trump is inviting a military catastrophe & humanitarian nightmare—suspending aid for air defense against Russia’s bloody slaughter of civilians as well as arms necessary for battle worn soldiers to hold the line against brutal attacks. His withholding this aid is illegal & immoral.

More than 216,000 seniors, children and working people in #IL13 get their healthcare through Medicaid. The budget resolution adopted by House Republicans this week puts that at risk. I’ll never support policies that put billionaires over working families.

We invited Elon Musk to defend himself in front of the American people.

He was too much of a coward to show up.

Maddow Aghast That White House Allowed Russian State Media In For Zelensky Meet The pundit pointed out a reporter with Russian News Agency TASS had somehow got in for the fiery sitdown.

If Trump/Vance meeting with Zelenskyy wasn’t a calculated set-up, why was Russian state media there?
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Trump and Musk want to get rid of the National Labor Relations Board, created to protect workers from exploitation and greed.

Why?

They want Americans working longer hours for worse pay. Just so their billionaire buddies can make even more money.

Sounds like a billionaire who’s never talked to a working person in his life.

Elon: get your hands off of Americans’ hard-earned Social Security.

Trump and Musk have been busy ripping off Californians – cutting into our wildfire prevention, health care, jobs, and more.

Elon Musk says DOGE 'accidentally' cut Ebola prevention Elon Musk said DOGE will make mistakes. He said an example is how the team briefly cut USAID funding for Ebola prevention.

Hmm... maybe DOGE isn't qualified to be running the U.S. government???
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Trump administration says it's cutting 90% of USAID foreign aid contracts The Trump administration says it is eliminating more than 90% of the U.S. Agency for International Development’s foreign aid contracts and $60 billion in overall U.S. assistance around the world.

Trump and Musk are recklessly and intentionally dismantling U.S. foreign policy and national security — compromising our ability to keep Americans safe, fight diseases and deliver lifesaving assistance around the world.

What they are doing is illegal. The courts cannot let this stand.

YouTube video by Rep. Auchincloss Democrats defend health care: For kids. For new moms. For seniors.

Democrats defend health care: For kids. For new moms. For seniors.
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RFK Jr. Dismisses Measles Outbreak As ‘Not Unusual’ After Child's Death “We have measles outbreaks every year," Trump's health secretary said when asked about the death, which is the nation's first in a decade.

"Measles is preventable—please vaccinate your kids to save their lives."

That's what ANY sane public health official would say.

The last measles death was a DECADE ago. But the elevation of anti-vax conspiracists like RFK Jr. is sowing distrust and killing children.

Picture of Trump's first cabinet meeting. Red arrows point to nominees with labels reading: Former President of the America First Policy Institute whose board is filled with oil and gas magnates Former fossil fuel exec with $44M in equity Leases land in North Dakota to oil and gas companies for drilling Former CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald which acquired a 45.3% stake in Connacher Oil and Gas in 2018 Lobbied for pipeline giant, enterprise product partners Investor in an ethanol plant with ties to controversial South Dakota carbon pipeline project

Trump doesn't have a cabinet. He has a cartel.

Social Security Administration Could Cut Half Its Workforce Sources tell the Prospect that a meeting called for a 50 percent reduction in an agency that millions rely on for benefit implementation.

This is absolutely crazy. House Republicans are attacking Medicaid, and now Trump is going after Social Security. We must protect seniors and people with disabilities—and we’ll fight back every step of the way.

DOGE FIRED an FAA scientist whose job is to create and maintain flight maps that pilots use to literally navigate airspace ‼️

I took to the House floor today with Science Committee Democrats to share some of the stories of federal employees fired by POTUS.

Riley Rackliffe was a federal worker at Lake Mead responsible for monitoring waterborne diseases and toxic algae. He is also the sole source of income for his wife and two kids.

Last week, Elon Musk fired him.

Elon Musk’s business empire is built on $38 billion in government funding Government infusions at key moments helped Tesla and SpaceX flourish, boosting Musk’s wealth.

Musk: Cut spending on everything!***

***unless you’re talking about the $38 billion in taxpayer dollars I get as the world’s richest man.

For all of Trump and Musk’s talk of “fraud and abuse” — the reality is this Administration is the fraud and what we’re seeing is their abuse of power.

We appear to be heading toward a full scale constitutional crisis.

Trump announced that he is terminating 10,000 foreign assistance awards, including over 90% of USAID programming.

We cannot just stand by and let this happen.

Republicans are lying when they say they won't cut Medicaid.

They greenlighted a plan to gut Medicaid by $880 billion, and millions of Americans are going to suffer because of it.

EPA moves to ditch finding that greenhouse gases cause harm The recommendation by Lee Zeldin, the agency's administrator, could upend existing and future regulations on climate change.

Do you know when the EPA declared greenhouse gasses to be harmful? In 2009.
 
These science-denying ideologues are literally taking us back in time and trying to wreck our ability to fight the climate crisis and ensure clean air and water for the American people. We must stop them.

With Congress Pliant, an Emboldened Trump Pushes His Business Interests Norms recognized for decades in Washington by both parties no longer appear to apply to the Trump White House, former prosecutors and ethics lawyers say.

The quickening pace of corruption - the brazen use of the White House to enrich himself and his friends - is stunning.

Soon, before we know it, government will no longer serve us at all. It will just be a mechanism to enrich billionaires loyal to Trump.